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Report Thailand Tightens Rules for Foreign Drivers: Tests Now Mandatory
Wow, they must have been really bad drivers if they failed such a test, I bet when they saw you do it they thought it was easy until they tried. 😃 My partner had some driving lessons and passed the driving test first time maybe ten years ago. Once or twice she picked me up in her car after I have been out for a beer with the lads, I have to keep on reminding her not to keep on changing lanes, I have to give her a running commentary on how to drive. It is quite fun as there is no traffic at that time of night in Phuket in my area Kathu. -
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The problems involved in being "mixed race" in Thailand
Farang Noi is the term I heard quite often about my son. As for the Army cadets, on children's day several years back they took my son's class to the Udon Thani air base for a show and tell. My son, Thai, Canadian, light skinned, looks very much like me, fluent Thai speaker was not allowed on the base, pure bloods only. If drafted he could not become an officer, pure bloods only. Glad we've moved back to Canada -
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Disability qualifications needed to modify bike
no dude not upset at all nobody cares about your DVA/USA DVA/VA shiite loser -
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Report Thailand Tightens Rules for Foreign Drivers: Tests Now Mandatory
The large percentage of injured, maimed, dead people can attest to that. 80% of road deaths are accidents... Approx half of those because of no helmet wear. When comparing like for like - 4 wheeled vehicles (i.e. removing motorcycles from the stats) on a per-capita basis the USA fatality stats are worse than Thailands.... I'm not defending the standards of the driving in Thailand - but I am pointing out that optics through which we as 'westerners' look at driving here can be quite distorted. I need to make an edit for that: 80% of road deaths are motorcyclists... Approx half of those because of no helmet wear. When comparing like for like - 4 wheeled vehicles (i.e. removing motorcycles from the stats) on a per-capita basis the USA fatality stats are worse than Thailands.... I'm not defending the standards of the driving in Thailand - but I am pointing out that optics through which we as 'westerners' look at driving here can be quite distorted. ------- To the stats: Thai Stats: WHO Figures: 25,000 road deaths per annum in Thailand. 80% motorcyclists: leaving 5000 road deaths for 4 wheeled vehicles or more Population 71.7 Million = 6.97 Road Deaths per 100,000 people. USA Stats: In 2023: 40,901 road deaths per annum in the USA 15% motorcyclists: leave 34,566 road deaths for 4 wheeled vehicles or more Population: 334.9 Million = 10.32 Road Deaths per 100,000 people. Obviously other facets come into this such as the distance people drive, so 'death rate, per 100,000 of population per 100,000 KM driven would be a more accurate comparison - but its difficult to dig out those stats) This is what the net drags up - for ALL road deaths including motorcycles: Thailand By population: ~25.4 deaths per 100,000 population By vehicle distance: ~112 deaths per 10 billion vehicle-km Removing 80% motorcycles: 22.8 deaths per 10 billion vehicle-km (non-motorcycle) United Kingdom By population: ~2.6 deaths per 100,000 population By vehicle distance: ~28 deaths per 10 billion vehicle-km Removing 19% motorcycles: 22.7 deaths per 10 billion vehicle-km (non-motorcycle) United States By population: ~12.8 deaths per 100,000 population By vehicle distance: ~70 deaths per 10 billion vehicle-km Removing 15% motorcycles: 59.5 deaths per 10 billion vehicle-km (non-motorcycle) The conclusion there is: When removing motorcycles from the equation the USA is nearly 3x more dangerous than Thailand which, on a per vehicle-Km basis (i.e. per distance travelled per vehicle) the UK and Thailand have similar road fatality stats: A lot of people won't like that... but is simple enough to work out the stats yourselves and find the info if you can be bothered. It's doesn't tell the whole story, because we do see some crazy stuff here... but it stats don't quite paint the same picture as some of the comments here. -
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Report Thailand Tightens Rules for Foreign Drivers: Tests Now Mandatory
Another misleading headline that states: "tests now mandatory", which is not true, yet... I took the test 30 years ago and passed but I have lost my licence card. Can I get a new one? Enforcing this could be very detrimental to tourism. I wonder what the percentage foreign nationals is in the cause road accident figures?
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